1. Cuba and the United States
W. Frank Robinson
Department of History
Center for Latin American Studies
Vanderbilt University

2. Emergence of United States as a World Power Spanish Cuban American War and Interventionism 1898-1920

3. Roots of Expansion
I. Diplomacy 1. comparative analysis: population, industrial production, military prowess 2. disputes a. Emperor Maximilian in Mexico b. British damages to Union shipping 3. Pan-Americanism and James G. Blaine 4. starts and stops - intermittent and unfocused no clearly defined foreign policy

4. Archduke Maximilian

5. James G. Blaine

6. Economy
II. Economy of Expansionism 1. search for foreign markets 2. American firms overseas 3. foreign trade and foreign capital 4. intervention as means of competition 5. age of European imperialism

7. European Partition of Africa

8. Imperialism

9. Foreign Policy
III. The Making of Expansionist Foreign Policy 1. Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890) a. control of the seas = imperial power b. naval analysis as cornerstone of U.S. strategy c. strategic points in defense of trading interests 2. free access to all markets

10. Alfred Thayer Mahan

11. Ideology
IV. Ideology of Expansionism 1. Brooks Adams, The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895) 2. Anglo-Saxon superiority 3. linking Manifest Destiny of past to present 4. Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893) 5. justifications for expansionism

12. Frederick Jackson Turner

13. An American Empire
I. Crisis in Cuba 1. Spanish colonies in the Caribbean 2. Cuban independence struggle 3. Valeriano Weyler - harsh tactics (reconcentration) 4. William Randolph Hearst and yellow journalism 5. sinking of the USS Maine 7. Dupuy de Lôme letter 8. war fever and colonial aspirations - jingoism

14. Valeriano Weyler

15. William Randolph Hearst

16. Yellow Journalism

17. Sinking of the Maine

18. Enrique Dupuy de Lôme

19. Spanish American War
II. Spoils of War 1. Commodore Dewey’s naval victory in the Philippines 2. annexation of Hawaii 3. assault on Cuba: Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders a. Battle of San Juan Hill b. heavy casualties 4. US naval blockade – defeat of Pascual Cervera

20. Admiral George Dewey

21. Major Campaigns

22. TR and Rough Riders

23. Empire and Intervention
Imperial Experiment 1. conquered territories - commitments 2. anti-imperialist backlash 3. two-ocean power a. no experience in colonial administration b. no structure for imperial control c. no coherent colonial policy 4. increasingly interventionist

24. American Empire

25. Cuba
“Imperial” Problem 1. military occupation 2. Platt Amendment replaces Teller Amendment a. restrictions placed on Cuban government b. no treaties or debt c. U.S. naval bases - Guantánamo Bay d. right of intervention

26. United States Occupation
1. military government
a. General John R. Brooke
b. General Leonard Wood
1) Dr. Walter Reed and Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay
2. issue of Cuban self-determination
3. Platt Amendment
a. permanent restrictions
b. national humiliation
4. pattern of political life under U.S. tutelage

27. Platt Amendment

28. Roosevelt Corollary